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US6135016A
US6135016A US09/258,685 US25868599A US6135016A US 6135016 A US6135016 A US 6135016A US 25868599 A US25868599 A US 25868599A US 6135016 A US6135016 A US 6135016A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G1/00—Cocoa; Cocoa products, e.g. chocolate; Substitutes therefor
    • A23G1/04—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of cocoa or cocoa products
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G7/00—Other apparatus or process specially adapted for the chocolate or confectionery industry

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  • the invention relates to a plant for producing foodstuffs, in particular a chocolate plant, comprising at least two sections, with the foodstuffs in the sections preferably being processable and/or conveyable in product carriers.
  • the chocolate plants known from the state of the art are always built as entire plants comprising various sections, e.g. mold changing sections, warming-up sections, refrigeration sections and mold release sections.
  • the known plants are tailor-made for a particular purpose, e.g. for producing Arts calendars, for producing chocolate bars or similar products.
  • reconfiguring the known plant from a plant for producing Arts calendars to a plant for producing chocolate bars is expensive, and sometimes even impossible.
  • the known chocolate plants achieve high rates of throughput when producing those products for which a particular plant is tailor-made.
  • a problem of the known chocolate plants is that their purchase is only justified if the products produced can be sold in large batches. This is problematic, in particular, when a new product is introduced in the market, since, in the case of chocolate plants known from the state of the art, a new chocolate plant has to be invested in, without the market success of the new product being foreseeable, because existing chocolate plants cannot be reconfigured economically. Thus the introduction of new products is associated with a relatively high economic risk. Furthermore, nowadays a good market exists for individual products made in small batches and for seasonal products. In either case a chocolate plant specifically bought for the respective product becomes profitable only after a relatively extended period of use.
  • the object of the invention to provide a plant for producing foodstuffs, in particular a chocolate plant, which ensures flexible production of usually small batches of various products.
  • the above-mentioned object is met in that the sections, at least in part, are mechanically independent of each other.
  • the mechanical independence of the sections, as realized according to the invention makes possible an individual arrangement of a plant, matched to the product to be produced, on site, at the foodstuffs producer.
  • the individual arrangement of a chocolate plant according to the invention is further facilitated in that the mechanically independent sections are moveable in relation to each other, in particular moveable on wheels. Respective devices provided at the sections thus allow reconfiguration of an existing chocolate plant in a very short time.
  • the mechanically independent sections can be started up independently of each other, there is the further option of leaving the layout of a plant unchanged and merely starting up or shutting down individual sections, thus adapting the functionality of the overall plant.
  • transfer devices e.g. robots or pneumatic transposition devices
  • these transfer devices can be used merely for delivering the foodstuffs between adjacent, mechanically independent, sections; on the other hand, transfer devices can also be used to bridge entire sections, depending on requirements. Bridging individual sections makes it unnecessary to reconfigure the entire plant.
  • the production process is further improved in that the product carriers for the foodstuffs, in particular for the chocolate, also comprise machine-readable markers.
  • transponders are suitable for machine-readable marking. Error conditions can easily be detected if sensors, in particular cameras, are provided for status monitoring of the plant.
  • the actual state of the production process can be monitored at any time if in the way of sensors, at least in part, reading devices for the machine-readable markers of the product carriers are arranged at the sections which are mechanically separated from each other. This even provides the option of changing over the plant according to the invention to another product while the production process is under way.
  • the embodiment of a chocolate plant configured according to the invention shown in the sole figure, is configured in such a way that chocolates with filling can be made in this plant.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a plant for producing foodstuffs in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • a plant for producing foodstuffs is appropriately configured as a chocolate plant.
  • the chocolate plant shown comprises a mold changing section 1.
  • the mold changing section 1 is connected to a line equalizing section 2 via a transfer device (not shown).
  • the line equalising section 2 in turn is connected to a mold warming-up section 3 by way of a transfer device (not shown).
  • the mould warming-up section 3 is followed by an apportioning and vibration section 4 where the chocolate mass is filled into the molds (not shown) representing the product carriers, and where subsequently the chocolate mass is homogenised by vibration.
  • the apportioning and vibration section 4 is followed by a shell forming section 5.
  • the necessity for forming shells stems from the requirement to produce chocolate with a filling. Subsequently, shell forming is continued in a refrigeration section 6.
  • the filling is inserted into the shells which have formed in this way within the chocolate. Subsequently, cooling of the filling takes place in a further refrigeration section 8.
  • the subsequent capping section 9 provides a cap for the filled chocolates. Then the finished chocolates are conveyed from the capping section 9 to a final refrigeration section 10 and finally into a mold release section 11 where the production loop is closed and the mold is conveyed to the mold changing section 1.
  • the embodiment of a chocolate plant according to the invention as shown in the figure demonstrates that this chocolate plant can easily be reconfigured for the production of chocolates without filling. This merely requires shutting down the shell forming section 5, the refrigeration section 6, the apportioning section 7, the further refrigeration section 8 and the capping section 9.
  • the apportioning and vibration section 4 directly conveys the molds (not shown) to the final refrigeration section 10. Such direct transfer of the molds from the apportioning and vibration section 4 to the final refrigeration section 10 can for example take place simply by moving the apportioning and vibration section 4.

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